The French are at it again!

[Doc Lynam]

They've only gone and given workers the right to not check emails outside of working hours!

French companies will be required to guarantee a "right to disconnect" to their employees from Sunday as the country seeks to tackle the modern-day scourge of compulsive out-of-hours email checking.

Thankfully we shouldn't expect that sort of nonsense here.

 

[BrianWade4]

They've only gone and given workers the right to not check emails outside of working hours!

French companies will be required to guarantee a "right to disconnect" to their employees from Sunday as the country seeks to tackle the modern-day scourge of compulsive out-of-hours email checking.

Thankfully we shouldn't expect that sort of nonsense here.

I think the Daily Mail would agree with you!!!

 

[RustyKent]

What a throughly good idea.

 

[Brian Potter]

Johnny Foreigner and their strange ways !! Just shows we were right to vote Brexit. Who in their right mind would expect their staff not to carry out work based activities in their own time when not getting paid for it. Madness !

 

[Coldeanseagull]

My works keep phoning me when I'm at home.....I just don't answer, so
me laisser l'enfer seul

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Allez les bleus!

 

[melias shoes]

I wouldn't need a workers rights memo. I wouldn't check any e-mails outside of work. Just wouldn't do it.

 

[studio150]

Total madness the leave vote are waiting on a return to the 80 hour week and a return to Victorian workers rights. They don't want any of that French nonsense here.

I can see a Mail and Express campaign starting against the silly French

 

[beorhthelm]

is this a real problem? are there people expected to "work" on emails outside of office hours, that don't get on call allowances? most if anyone i know who responds to emails out of hours does so voluntarily, and working like this at evening/weekends/holiday is already covered by working time (i.e. you're not allowed to ask staff to do so, and take action to prevent them not taking breaks).

 

[happypig]

is this a real problem? are there people expected to "work" on emails outside of office hours, that don't get on call allowances? most if anyone i know who responds to emails out of hours does so voluntarily, and working like this at evening/weekends/holiday is already covered by working time (i.e. you're not allowed to ask staff to do so, and take action to prevent them not taking breaks).

I have worked under several directors who expected their managers to have their blackberrys with them and to answer emails out of hours if necessary.

 

[JC Footy Genius]

The French are (probably) just about to elect a devout Thatcherite as President who has promised to bring in sweeping economic reforms .. oh and he opposes multiculturalism, same-sex marriage. If he doesn't get in it's Marine Le Pen .... allez le bleu?

 

[Blue3]

It's just this sort of thing that the country voted overwhelmingly not to sign up to, the working week should not be dictated by faceless continental types, best leave this to the faceless leaders we already have here

 

[portslade seagull]

It's just this sort of thing that the country voted overwhelmingly not to sign up to, the working week should not be dictated by faceless continental types, best leave this to the faceless leaders we already have here

Overpaid faceless leaders to boot. FIFA reincarnated as the EU, corruption united

 

[Billy the Fish]

I answer the work phone out of hours if someone calls or e-mails. It generally means someone needs some help, it's not a big deal.

 

[Triggaaar]

I have worked under several directors who expected their managers to have their blackberrys with them and to answer emails out of hours if necessary.

That depends on the wage. I can't see high up people in France not still expected to have a phone with them at certain times.

 

[Doc Lynam]

I think the issue is that no worker in France was legally empowered to make their own choice; that has now changed for them.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

I answer the work phone out of hours if someone calls or e-mails. It generally means someone needs some help, it's not a big deal.

Agreed, I answer e mails even when inconvenient for me as I feel a responsibility towards my colleagues and organization.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

I think the issue is that no worker in France was legally empowered to make their own choice; that has now changed for them.

Unenforceable.

 

[Notters]

is this a real problem? are there people expected to "work" on emails outside of office hours, that don't get on call allowances? most if anyone i know who responds to emails out of hours does so voluntarily, and working like this at evening/weekends/holiday is already covered by working time (i.e. you're not allowed to ask staff to do so, and take action to prevent them not taking breaks).

Yep. My old boss had a go at me for not spending my Sunday afternoons checking my emails and preparing for the week ahead. Apparently I was unprofessional.

I left that job.

 

[AmexRuislip]

They've only gone and given workers the right to not check emails outside of working hours!

French companies will be required to guarantee a "right to disconnect" to their employees from Sunday as the country seeks to tackle the modern-day scourge of compulsive out-of-hours email checking.

Thankfully we shouldn't expect that sort of nonsense here.